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GRATE. 410,247,746. Patented ont. 4,1881.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEo ROBERT CHARLES, OF- ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT S.- CHARLES, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,746, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed August 1,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT` CHARLES, of St. Louis,MissOuri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Grates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of' this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective, showing the front part of a stove having the improvement in question, to exhibit which the front wall and grate-bars are broken away; and Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the same.

Similar letters denote similar parts.

The'aim of the present invention is to provide an improved means for concentrating and maintaining a comparatively small body ofre at a high level in a. grate or fire-place, and so that the top of the tire may come near the top of the lire-place.

In the drawings, A represents a stove (only that portion thereof immediately connected with the improvement being shown) having the top plate, B, the fire-place C, and the grate D, the latter having the bars d d and end walls, d' d2, substantially as in the ordinaryT stove.

E represents a plate made to fit the grate transversely, having its edges c e tapered to t the taper of the back d3 and front d4 of the grate, and extending from the bottom d5 of the tire-pot well up toward the top of the re place. The plate is intended tO form a false end wall of the grate, being removable therefrom and adjustable endwise therein, and so that it can be placed and held at any desired point between the ends of the grate, and for the time being forming one of the ends of the fire-place.

To hold it in position the plate is provided with a brace, F, the upper end,f, of which is fastened to the plate and the lower end bent to form a shoulder, f', which bears against the side ofone of the grate-bars d; and to better keep the brace in place it is also shaped at f2 to bear down upon the top of the grate-bars, substantially as shown. The end or foot of the brace is thus kept from slipping horizontally and from dropping through the gratebottom. At the same time the plate F can be removed fromv the {ire-place by simply lifting it from o" the grate. In this way the tire-place can be shortened in width as desired, and by confining the lire between the plate F and the end wall but a small body of tire is needed, even to bring the top of the fire near the top of the tire-place, and so as to be near the utensils upon the stove.

The plate F may be a grating.

I claim- The combination of the plate E, brace F, and grate D, substantially as described.

ROBERT CHARLES. Witnesses:

C. D. MOODY, CHARLES PIOKLEs. 

